Roman Catholic Church

Her protagonist, Josephine, is as a child deeply impressed by two sights on the same day: a fat lady, gaudily dressed, daringly walking a tightrope, and a burning of heretics by the Inquisition. Josephine identifies...

SS 's modesty was well founded. The novel that follows is a more conventional romance than any of Richardson 's, though it makes much reference to Sir Charles Grandison, and also cites Pamela (though...

The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church , which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with...

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

Early in the story two young men, Dirk and Thierry, decide to study the dark arts. After they put a curse on a fellow-student they are accused of witchcraft and their apparatus discovered, but they...

This novel focuses on Beatrice, an orphan of mysterious origin who ends up after a shipwreck in the imaginary Scottish village of Clanmarina. She is taken in by Sir Evan McAlpine, and Lady Edith, his...

The wife, Jessie Enderby, is much younger than the middle-aged colonel. She is presented (by a male narrator who sees himself as a social historian and social critic) not as the passive victim of a...

Despite her own past conversion, JB says she has made her French author speak the English of the Church of England, in an unusual attempt to bring Catholic devotional practices to the attention of devout...

The Lost Word draws on but warps the conventions of aestheticism. Catherine Alstone's passion for art is not inflected by practical concerns, but neither is it art for artisticness that I want . ....

In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...

It records the thinking that led her to return from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of England . CT uses the first person, in a clear, confident style, hammering her opponents with rhetorical questions.

The protagonist of The Deserter is a young Irish soldier in the British army. When he deserts (having got into bad company) he is arrested and re-possessed by the army. Serving in India, he...

GF is still struggling here with the relative merits of fiction and biography. Her preface puts forward the idea that when a biography is able to present its readers with a reflection of their own...

The title is ironical, for LM argues that women's incursions into the masculine sphere threaten them with subjection, while personal and family relations set their talents free. She appeals here to the authority of the...

The letters provide a detailed account of the thirty-nine-year love affair between STW and Ackland . The pair wrote letters to each other whether they were apart or together, and the result is an intimate...